please man I couldn't be a bond servant of Jesus Christ and yet how often our services in the fear of man there's a verse in Revelation chapter 3 that the Lord put on my heart if you turn there that's that as has relevance to this

good afternoon before I came to NCC F I never heard much about the church being the body of Christ or the church being like a family I always thought Christianity was simply my individual relationship between me and God but this week through our study

it's not that Christianity isn't God doing everything for us and us just um kind of relaxing and receiving it but partaking in God's work and having the same burden as him and um having the privilege to be part of the work and we

I was blessed by something that when I said as we were um singing he said nobody here the only person who's important here is Jesus Christ and it's good to remember as we share the the words hopefully that each of us share we're sharing as

blessing is mine in Christ Jesus to know that every blessing of the Holy Spirit is mine and it just lifts my head up to know that I can live the dignity of Christ who live with the dignity of Christ and and to know that he will

already full we can all go home now chef from but then I've been thinking a lot about found philippians 3 14 and what is the upward call of god in christ jesus

And I want him to be my God, too. I want this greatest blessing in the trial, not that I'm just changed. We can have this attitude. I want to be changed. I want a new identity. I want to be made like Christ, right? That's a good desire. But,

cheer me on this path including my parents and several priests whom i looked up to i was completely unaware of the deception and lie of the devil that i had bought into but the devil was unaware of the great plan god had made for me in christ

gods invested in me by giving me the best helper I could ever ask for in my wife now the question is did God invest all these things in me so that I could live for myself and have a nice comfortable Christian life the answer is

growth to maturity are what brings a balanced Ministry and Jesus made that clear in what is known as the Great Commission if you were to ask the average Christian what is the Great

since i since i became a born-again christian because this is a promise that i was able to depend on um for this whole walk for my whole walk with christ i can't depend on this on this promise because it has proven to be right it's

overcoming but that part's a little bit harder for us to recognize for ourselves but also for our kids and um i was thinking that part of the inheritance that we have to own for ourselves as disciples of jesus christ but also to pass down to our children

We were studying the Sermon on the Mount seeing it as a description of partly a part description of a Christ-like life. All of Christ-likeness is not found in the Sermon on the Mount. It's a much vaster

it not too long ago this verse hid in my heart and it's tattooed in my heart that Lord you are giving Christ to me valina will you not take care of everything else pertaining to me honest and if it

and look at what Paul says this is the testimony of someone who believes God giveth more grace when the burden grows greater because what Paul says is most gladly therefore will I boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ

about two men both who are Christians and the the thing about these men is they had exactly the same day the same circumstances in their day but um I want to talk share about them in their day and then also how their day

what happened to hebron they don't call it hebron anymore and for me it's it spoke a warning to my heart that the land resumed its former identity you know the faith of caleb and the faithfulness of god which was kind of you know um

I I uh I had a burden on my heart today to speak a little bit about how do we know if we're a Christian does anybody have any I I pulled some nccf kids this week so I have I have a few answers but I thought I might be fun to start with a little a

as from the Lord the spirit so it's this the image of Christ were being transformed into the image of God Christ likeness is the glory of God that he's given to us so that two people can be one so it's very clear in God's Word

what a beautiful thing as christians god's holy and beloved people we can put on these beautiful characters this is a characteristic of a christian holy and beloved we sang the song christian homes

God wants to see the picture of Christ in us. And that's when God says, "This man is real. Come with me." And I I pray God will enable me to realize that each and every day as I go to my work or come back from work, go play with my friends to remember

i wanted to uh mention one of the things that we heard on sunday from brother zack is the uh humility of mind it says um in philippians 2 perhaps we can start there he was mentioning the attitude of jesus christ and how we're commanded to have

today that the reason why the Apostle Paul knew Jesus Christ so well was because he says in Philippians 3 I considered everything outside of Christ as